Again, don't care about this one, but am struggling now to recall the last time I actively admired an athlete in any context.

They say Wally Manning, or whichever the Manning is not Eli, and I forget the name only it's Payton, I just looked it up on the internet. Okay.

They say Peyton Manning continued to loyally and generously support his Indianapolis charities after his career moved to Denver. That's excellent.

Some people are having a lot of fun with this.

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Every breath you take....

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Amy's probably covered the topic in earlier days: I have no strong feelings about spanking, and don't recall any from my own childhood.

But there's a consistent pattern that when the topic comes in in a room full of people, the guys you like least will find no fault in it, and then affirm that 'I got spanked all the time, and I turned out okay!'

Important statistic for China-worriers.

That other one is even more sinister: The black continent carries $6 trillion of debt. With a T.

Also.

Okay, I think we can call it a matter of settled science.

By the way, I steal most of these from Andreessen's likes.

Amy's probably covered the topic in earlier days: I have no strong feelings about spanking, and don't recall any from my own childhood. ~ Crid at September 10, 2018 3:37 AM

She did, and the ensuing discussion had the expected acrimony on both sides.

But there's a consistent pattern that when the topic comes in in a room full of people, the guys you like least will find no fault in it, and then affirm that 'I got spanked all the time, and I turned out okay!' ~ Crid at September 10, 2018 3:37 AM

I think you'll find consistent patterns with the people who most vocally oppose it as well.

The biggest problem the aforementioned thread discussion had was settling on a definition of spanking versus beating with people splitting hairs to narrowly define spanking as a mere tap versus people painting with a broad brush to include obvious physical abuse in "spanking."

People staked their claim to a position and commenced to launching verbal (in this case, textual) salvoes at any who opposed them.

They say Peyton Manning continued to loyally and generously support his Indianapolis charities after his career moved to Denver. That's excellent. ~ Crid at September 9, 2018 11:35 PM

I think that has a lot to do with the sport in which each is engaged as well as how each was raised.

Football is geographically-centered while tennis is player-centered. Football is a hierarchical sport - teams, owner, coaches - while tennis is a very individual sport.

Archie Manning (the Manning pater familias) settled in New Orleans when he was drafted by the Saints. That the hapless Saints were the definition of futility for their first twenty years (once derided by their own fans as the Aints), despite Manning being voted into the Pro Bowl twice in his ten years there, changed the way the NFL handles expansion teams. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Carolina Panthers would benefit from that change, each making the playoffs by their third year in existence.

Archie didn't fly into New Orleans for the season and consider somewhere else his real home. The Manning house was a modest one (saw it on a tour when I was in New Orleans a few years back) with a fenced yard and a front porch.

The Manning boys stayed within the SEC family to play college ball. Although Peyton did choose to wear "that godawful orange," Cooper and Eli chose their father's alma mater at Ole Miss.

The oldest son, Cooper, had his playing days cut short with a diagnosis of spinal stenosis. Accepting his diagnosis, he left the team, showing his younger brothers that there was life beyond football. To honor his older brother, Peyton chose to wear Cooper's former jersey number in the pros (18).

Eli's flat out refusal to play for the San Diego Chargers seemed out of character for what had been a rules-following family to that point. No reason for his recalcitrance has yet been given.

The Williams sisters, from what I can tell, were raised to play championship tennis. All other considerations took a back seat to that. Still, they seem to have turned out all right with none of that Jacksons melodrama and weirdness.

Championship tennis is almost as full of whining, flopping, and screaming at referees as European soccer, so Serena's latest outburst is par for the course and nothing we haven't see already from McEnroe, Connors, et al. The difference being that Jimmy and Johnny couldn't cloak their brattiness in the raiments of "the sisterhood."

I dunno, I haven't read the specifics, but the tone I'm getting through a thick grapevine is that Serena is somewhat Jacksonian....

Russians have trouble getting along. Kmele Foster once described 19th century serfdom as the twin of abject American slavery... Much would be explained

I dunno, I haven't read the specifics, but the tone I'm getting through a thick grapevine is that Serena is somewhat Jacksonian.... ~ Crid at September 10, 2018 7:44 AM

Perhaps. Sadly, sportsmanship is dead. And Serena helped to kill it.

Hmm..

The New York Democratic Party, in the last week of the campaign, is sending mailers with Cynthia Nixon’s picture and the words “anti-Semitism”

https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1038533107400491008

Glassy-eyed robot wanders around campus, stuck in an infinite loop.

#include

int main()

{

for (;;) // or equivalently, while (1)

{

printf("I love Jesus\n");

}

return 0;

}

Looks like those cheap dayglo-coloured plastic figurines

https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1039126741120430080

“They search every face in the room for their loved person. They don’t understand why you left them when they are sick, scared, old, or dying from cancer and they need your comfort.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/pets-are-scared-and-look-around-for-their-owners-in-dying-moments-brokenhearted-vet-reveals-a3931961.html

http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/5aaa1cbf35832-5a3a10bd3f6c6_z3kfn4ivorfz__700.jpg

These people look like fun

$1.8 billion of Tesla bonds due in August 2025 plunged to a record low on Friday. The bonds traded for just 84 cents on the dollar, down from 98 cents a year ago. The yield, which moves opposite price, almost doubled over that span to 8.6%.

"Tesla is in a cash pinch," Cowen & Co. analyst Jeffrey Osborne said in an interview. "The primary concern — above and beyond doing drugs and whatnot on podcasts — continues to be the ability of the company to generate cash."

https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/10/technology/business/tesla-stock-bonds-elon-musk/index.html

Digital book burning commence

https://twitter.com/RationalMale/status/1039226639089954816

> Tesla bonds due in August 2025
> plunged to a record low on
> Friday.

Again, Snooples, the point is that the bonds didn't plunge on August 7. Last I heard, shorts lost $2.7 Billion on that date, the date you'd recommended that everyone short the stock. Again, again... The point of being a weatherman is not to affirm that "one day it will rain." What people ask is, 'Is it going to rain today?'

Your eagerness to smirk is beside the point, right?

Im telling you GMOs are fucking AWESOME

http://kengarex.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/5aaa1cc30c01e-5a3bb10db106f_Gql4V7x-png__700.jpg

If that is what it takes for groups like PETA to get behind GMOs then maybe someone should look into that.